International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics 
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This is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader or to display this data on your own website or blog.Transmission of fore-and-aft floor vibration to the spine and head of standing people
Int J Occup Saf Ergon. 2024 Jan 21:1-9. doi: 10.1080/10803548.2024.2308442. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSixteen standing male participants were subjected to fore-and-aft sinusoidal vibration with peak magnitude and frequency in the range 0.44-4.431 ms-2 and 2-6 Hz, respectively. The fore-and-aft, lateral and vertical transmissibilities to the first dorsal vertebra (T1), eighth dorsal vertebra (T8), twelfth dorsal vertebra (T12), fourth lumbar vertebra (L4) and head were measured. Large inter-participant variability was observed in the transmissibilities at all locations. Nevertheless, peaks in the range 3-4.5 Hz were ide...
Source: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics - January 22, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Naser Nawayseh Ashokan Arumugam Ya Huang Source Type: research
Identification of critical causes of construction accidents in China using a hybrid HFACS-CN model
Int J Occup Saf Ergon. 2024 Jan 19:1-34. doi: 10.1080/10803548.2024.2308453. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTABSTRACTConstruction safety is of significance since construction accidents can result in the loss of property and enormous casualties. This research aims to identify the critical causes of construction accidents by introducing a hybrid approach. A hybrid approach is developed to identify the critical causes of construction accidents by combining the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) model with complex network (CN) theory. A total of 863 construction accident cases were collected, and 46 causal ...
Source: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics - January 20, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Xiaolong Wang Xiang Yang Hu Lulu Wang Bingyu Dong Ruipeng Tong Source Type: research
Identifying key accident causation factors in the Malaysian construction industry
Conclusion. The study concludes that addressing all 11 factors will drastically reduce the incessant accident occurrences in the construction industry. The result of this study will help construction stakeholders know where to direct their energy in an effort to reduce construction accidents.PMID:38243387 | DOI:10.1080/10803548.2024.2308376 (Source: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics)
Source: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics - January 20, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Olatoyese Zaccheus Oni AbdulLateef Olanrewaju Khor Soo Cheen Source Type: research
The effect of exposure to cold on dexterity and temperature of the skin and hands
Conclusion. No effect of cold exposure (-1 °C, +5 °C) on manual dexterity was observed, but there was an effect of -1 °C temperature change on weighted mean skin temperature and hand skin temperature during 1 h of exposure. The decrease in both right and left hand skin temperature after cold exposure was the largest for -1 °C while using single gloves, and differed significantly from the other variants.PMID:38191297 | DOI:10.1080/10803548.2023.2293387 (Source: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics)
Source: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics - January 8, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Joanna Orysiak Magdalena M łynarczyk Emilia Irzma ńska Source Type: research
Understanding the "blues of safety professionals"
Int J Occup Saf Ergon. 2023 Dec 28:1-29. doi: 10.1080/10803548.2023.2298561. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAbstractSomething is not right in the safety profession. Many books written by professionals in the 2010s express a strong discontent. These professionals are highly critical of their situation, practice, role and identity. In these books, they express what this article describes as the "blues of safety professionals". Although varying in writing style, tone, theoretical inspiration, emphasis, and experience, they address similar issues which relate to practices corresponding, in their eyes, to outmoded, inadequate, o...
Source: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics - December 28, 2023 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Jean-Christophe Le Coze Source Type: research
Lifejackets or just jackets? Seaworthiness of lifejackets sold at landing sites on Lake Albert, Uganda
CONCLUSION: The lifejackets sold at the landing sites of Lake Albert do not meet the minimum seaworthiness functional requirements. The government should regulate the quality of lifejackets on the local market.PMID:38148623 | DOI:10.1080/10803548.2023.2298147 (Source: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics)
Source: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics - December 27, 2023 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Frederick Oporia Jagnoor Jagnoor Jonah Mumbya Bonny Enock Balugaba Otto Businge Jeff Agenonga Abel Wilson Walekhwa John Bosco Isunju Olive Kobusingye Source Type: research
